{"id":475,"date":"2017-11-08T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/?p=475"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:13:31","slug":"alicja-maria-kuberska-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwabogdani.org\/sq\/alicja-maria-kuberska-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicja Maria Kuberska, Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alicja Maria Kuberska, Poland Member of the Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alicja Maria Kuberska \u2013 awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor.<\/p>\n<p>She is an author of many volumes and a novel. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, Czech Republic, the USA, the UK, Belgium ,Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Chile, Israel, Canada, India, Italy, Uzbekistan, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw, Poland and IWA Bogdani, Albania. She is also a member of directors\u2019 board of Soflay Literature Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The day \u2013 break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wake me up<br \/>\nDelicately and tenderly.<br \/>\nBlow away the dream<br \/>\nFrom my eye-lashes.<br \/>\nThen I will see,<br \/>\nHow Aurora with rose fingers<br \/>\nCuts the darkness of the night<br \/>\nAnd lightens the blue sky.<\/p>\n<p>All birds, curled up in the nests,<br \/>\nWill sing the hymn about dawn.<br \/>\nThe first, warm rays of the sun<br \/>\nWill kiss the petals of sleeping flowers.<br \/>\nThis is a miracle of the new day created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good morning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each day<\/p>\n<p>I would like to know each day,<br \/>\nIts colors and tastes,<br \/>\nAs if it were my first day<br \/>\nAnd the last as well.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want to stay<br \/>\nIn the sphere of silence.<br \/>\nI want to change the<br \/>\nMinutes into notes.<br \/>\nThe days were composed<br \/>\nLike symphonies.<br \/>\nThe nights played the nocturnes<\/p>\n<p><strong>The train<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got onto the train of life<br \/>\nWith nothing,<br \/>\nWithout clothes,<br \/>\nWithout feelings.<br \/>\nA blank sheet of paper.<br \/>\nBlotting-paper absorbing everything.<\/p>\n<p>I will get out burdened with bundles of<br \/>\nRecollections and impressions.<\/p>\n<p>I packed them carefully.<br \/>\nSome of them faded, like<br \/>\nInk from old letters.<br \/>\nI tied them with ribbons of all colors.<br \/>\nThese white ones are my<br \/>\nInessential remembrances<br \/>\nAnd black ones are heavy and traumatic.<\/p>\n<p>I met many passengers,<br \/>\nThroughout this long journey<br \/>\nAnd free-riders too,<br \/>\nWho were picked up<br \/>\nAt different stops.<\/p>\n<p>Each meeting,<br \/>\nEven this, the shortest one,<br \/>\nLike a flash of sun or<br \/>\nFlutter of butterfly wings<br \/>\nEnriched and filled my bag of experiences<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I knocked at your mind.<\/p>\n<p>Let me in &#8211; I asked<br \/>\nI have brought you something,<br \/>\nMy crazy thoughts and dreams,<br \/>\nThe works collected from<br \/>\nThe oceans of creativity.<br \/>\nLook how pretty they are,<br \/>\nEven the smallest ones\u2026<br \/>\nSmaller than grains of sand.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want them &#8211; you answered<br \/>\nMy world is sterile,<br \/>\nArranged and known.<br \/>\nYour every written poem<br \/>\nCan ruin my calm,<br \/>\nWhich was built over years.<br \/>\nThe recognition can be painful<br \/>\nBecause of its insolence and ignorance.<br \/>\nThe questions wake up the sleeping fears.<br \/>\nI prefer to stay safely in<br \/>\nWell &#8211; known loneliness<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conversion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a pity that I cannot buy a new soul.<br \/>\nIn supermarkets, there are no special offers<br \/>\n&#8211; New Soul! On sale!<\/p>\n<p>The old one is dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p>It is much easier to have a simple vision of the world.<br \/>\nKeep your feet on the ground and don\u2019t have dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Being greedy protects the heart.<br \/>\nLife has a physical dimension. Ideals hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Gain a prominent place in the rat race,<br \/>\nDispose of sentiments, tears.<\/p>\n<p>My soul is able to forgive.<br \/>\nIt cannot learn to trust again.<\/p>\n<p>It says it does not enter the same river twice.<br \/>\nUnreasonable? Perhaps. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>It does not listen to reason.<br \/>\nIt pulls away from people<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is she<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We pass each other nearly every day,<br \/>\nDistance of fear between us.<br \/>\nLife forces us to mutual disregard and acceptance.<br \/>\nAt times, like an unruly child, she will spoil something,<br \/>\nTo garner attention, to arrest with a gesture.<\/p>\n<p>I see her in the wind, which carelessly<br \/>\nTurns over the withering leaves<br \/>\nAnd standing proudly erect in stalks stiffened by frost.<br \/>\nShe paints shriveled trees gray, breaks limbs with a crack.<br \/>\nShe is mute in the clenched throats of birds,<br \/>\nShe stares with glassy eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She is all-around and she reminds us of her presence.<br \/>\nShe patiently explains the meaning of certainty.<br \/>\nI know she does not allow us to take anything,<br \/>\nWhen she plays the requiem and invites eternal sleep<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alicja Maria Kuberska, Poland Member of the Board Alicja Maria Kuberska \u2013 awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. 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